New York Times Bestseller Fiction Combined August 03,2014

THE BOOK OF LIFE, by Deborah Harkness. (Viking.) In the conclusion to the All Souls trilogy, the Oxford scholar/witch Diana Bishop and the vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont return from Elizabethan London to the present.

THE HEIST, by Daniel Silva. (Harper.) Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, must track down a famous missing painting by Caravaggio.

CUT AND THRUST, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam.) Complications abound as the New York lawyer Stone Barrington attends a political convention in Los Angeles.

GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown.) A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?

INVISIBLE, by James Patterson and David Ellis. (Little, Brown.) Searching for her sister’s killer, a former F.B.I. researcher finds a link between scores of unsolved cases.

ACT OF WAR, by Brad Thor. (Emily Bestler/Atria.) The counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath undertakes two dangerous missions as America faces an imminent attack.

THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. (Little, Brown.) A painting smuggled out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a bombing becomes a boy’s prize, guilt and burden.

TOP SECRET TWENTY-ONE, by Janet Evanovich. (Bantam.) The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum pursues a dealer who sells more than used cars.

ORPHAN TRAIN, by Christina Baker Kline. (Morrow/HarperCollins.) A historical novel about orphans swept off the streets of New York and sent to the Midwest in the 1920s.

THE SILKWORM, by Robert Galbraith. (Mulholland/Little, Brown.) The private detective Cormoran Strike steps in when the author of a roman à clef set in literary London is murdered; by J. K. Rowling, writing pseudonymously.

SIGHT UNSEEN, by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen. (St. Martin's.) The investigator Kendra Michaels employs her highly developed senses to deal with an admirer who is also her most ruthless enemy.

POWER PLAY, by Catherine Coulter. (Putnam.) The F.B.I. agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are out to discover who is trying to kill the ambassador to Britain.

ADDICTED, by Tracy Wolff. (Loveswept/Random House.) As Chloe Girard discovers, there’s love, and then there’s addiction; an Ethan Frost novel.

WAYFARING STRANGER, by James Lee Burke. (Simon & Schuster.) A man’s life is traced over decades, starting with his encounter, at age 16, with Bonnie and Clyde.

MR. MERCEDES, by Stephen King. (Scribner.) A driver plows into a crowd at a job fair, killing eight. The killer then taunts a suicidal ex-cop, who must stop a deadlier attack.